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10-16-2012, 08:32 PM
Canada is out of control most days, apparently some guy trolled a facebook page, sure it was regarding a girls suicide but some woman took it upon herself to email his employer about it...completely unrelated to his job and they fired him.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/st...mment.html
That seems like its way over the top to me, next thing you know people will be getting fired from their job because some girl went on a date with a guy and decided he was 'creepy' and emailed her opinion to his employer. Opinions? Would this fly anywhere else but Canada?
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10-16-2012, 08:33 PM
A man's livelihood is now connected to his personal life. If you don't run your own business, it's just a matter of time until it happens to you.
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10-16-2012, 08:36 PM
He would be jailed if he lived in England.
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10-16-2012, 08:45 PM
How do you bully someone who is already dead?
There's got to be a way this guy can sue.
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10-16-2012, 08:53 PM
I'd be knocking on that bitch's door with a bat.
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10-16-2012, 08:58 PM
I'm sure in this country people have already been fired, or not hired, because of something they posted on Facebook or Twitter. Some employers will search to find out about your personal life. If you feel tempted to post about something controversial or sensitive, you always need to stop and think about how it will be received by someone that doesn't really know you, and is looking for a reason to nail you.
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10-16-2012, 09:01 PM
They should publicly lash/whip the people in charge of firing him. Too bad the public doesn't give a shit these days.
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10-16-2012, 09:08 PM
Good reason to remain anonymous on the net. Fuck I wish I had known that 5 years ago.
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10-16-2012, 09:10 PM
I keep preaching this here..Be in control of your destiny/get your own things going. It's going to get worse before better.
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10-16-2012, 09:24 PM
This is a good thing maybe, so hear me out.
I was thinking about high school the other day. My brother graduated a handful of years ahead of me. His class did some cool shit, like smash an old car before football games. The bonfire was post game. This was on school grounds. All this was gone when I graduated. I think 6 signed up for the senior trip, and no one skipped on senior skip day. No one gave a fuck.
The same was happening in colleges, and I saw the same pattern in the military. This was mid 90's. Here and after corporations started eliminating company picknick's and family days. Our social lives were constricted. Then comes the internet. The herds migrated to the WWW and it's where we've been ever since. But it was a safe place free from liability. We had freedoms, but they are threatened.
Now people are getting jailed and fired for online comments. The place isn't safe anymore, and as laws and policies, both in government and in the private sectors emerge, people will again migrate. They will shut off their social sites, including dating ones, and move on. Back to reality? Will bars be places for pickup again? Work centers fun places to be?
I'm just throwing this out, as it's been on my mind as of late. Am I far off the mark?
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10-16-2012, 09:42 PM
"At-will" employment--the notion "either party" can terminate the employment relationship at any time, for any reason--which was only instituted on a wide scale in recent decades, allows these kind of unjust terminations. The contract clause is really designed to benefit employers, since employees have always been able to walk away from jobs.
For those of you who hate regulation: this is the product of "free-market" principles in practice. "Labor" is a throw-away commodity you can dissolve for any bullshit reason. You have no protections, because you're just a pair of hands.
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10-16-2012, 10:41 PM
This 15 year old girl killed herself because some guy was stalking her for years over the internet and threatening her and her family, trying to blackmail her into pornography. A week after she commits suicide some random dude posts "About time this bitch died" on a Facebook memorial page for her where her parents, family, friends, etc. will see...this is the shit y'all are defending?
I understand and support the need for a certain level of privacy on the internet but this isn't an issue of privacy. This is an issue of people talking recklessly on the internet because they think they're safe from any repercussions hiding behind their computer screen. They didn't go to his page and look at his picture or google his posts in forums like this one. This wasn't some rant about government spending or abortion. He needlessly said some vile shit on the memorial page for some dead teenage girl and it caught up to his ass.
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10-16-2012, 11:15 PM
It would be awful if you couldn't fire incompetent employees.
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10-16-2012, 11:17 PM
Quote: (10-16-2012 10:41 PM)Enigma Wrote:
This 15 year old girl killed herself because some guy was stalking her for years over the internet and threatening her and her family, trying to blackmail her into pornography. A week after she commits suicide some random dude posts "About time this bitch died" on a Facebook memorial page for her where her parents, family, friends, etc. will see...this is the shit y'all are defending?
I understand and support the need for a certain level of privacy on the internet but this isn't an issue of privacy. This is an issue of people talking recklessly on the internet because they think they're safe from any repercussions hiding behind their computer screen. They didn't go to his page and look at his picture or google his posts in forums like this one. This wasn't some rant about government spending or abortion. He needlessly said some vile shit on the memorial page for some dead teenage girl and it caught up to his ass.
What you do outside of work should be none of your employer's business. I don't think anyone in this threads supports his post on Facebook but it's retarded to get fired over voicing your opinion on the fucking internet.
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10-16-2012, 11:27 PM
Quote: (10-16-2012 09:52 PM)Samseau Wrote:
Quote: (10-16-2012 09:42 PM)Tuthmosis Wrote:
"At-will" employment--the notion "either party" can terminate the employment relationship at any time, for any reason--which was only instituted on a wide scale in recent decades, allows these kind of unjust terminations. The contract clause is really designed to benefit employers, since employees have always been able to walk away from jobs.
For those of you who hate regulation: this is the product of "free-market" principles in practice. "Labor" is a throw-away commodity you can dissolve for any bullshit reason. You have no protections, because you're just a pair of hands.
In France, they have laws against firing people.
Wonder how that's working out?
Looks to be about the same as it is here in the US.
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10-17-2012, 12:05 AM
Quote: (10-16-2012 10:41 PM)Enigma Wrote:
This 15 year old girl killed herself because some guy was stalking her for years over the internet and threatening her and her family, trying to blackmail her into pornography. A week after she commits suicide some random dude posts "About time this bitch died" on a Facebook memorial page for her where her parents, family, friends, etc. will see...this is the shit y'all are defending?
I understand and support the need for a certain level of privacy on the internet but this isn't an issue of privacy. This is an issue of people talking recklessly on the internet because they think they're safe from any repercussions hiding behind their computer screen. They didn't go to his page and look at his picture or google his posts in forums like this one. This wasn't some rant about government spending or abortion. He needlessly said some vile shit on the memorial page for some dead teenage girl and it caught up to his ass.
This. What a scumbag. Your character has plenty to do with your job...
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10-17-2012, 01:20 AM
Damn right. Some sick cunt goes trolling a dead child's page,no doubt upsetting her distraught parents even more and I'm meant to feel sorry for this guy because he lost his job??! The guy is a low life,fuck him.